J&S Fielke Blanc de Blancs 2024

This spends time in older oak. It’s a fine-boned and yet flavoursome sparkling wine that shows off some very pleasing saline minerality and nutty savouriness in a tight frame of green apple crunch, citrus freshness, fuzzy peach notes and a prettiness of sugared almonds and halva sweet-savoury characters. Bubbles are tight, the wine almost vinous in its way. A beautiful chardonnay underlying, is the message. And in that, great wine is found here. 95 points – Halliday Wine Companion

Sourced from the Deanery Vineyard in Balhannah and farmed using Organic methodology. The 2023 season was a very cool, prolonged growing cycle, ideal for sparkling wine with rich fruit flavour development. The wine was whole bunch press, and settled overnight before barrelling down to barrel (50% second fill), for a wild fermentation. After completing malo in the Spring, the wine was tirage, unfiltered, in December 2023. After 18 months on lees, the wine was disgorged with 2g/L dosage, and the first sulphur addition of the wine’s life.